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Socrates
For each kind of shuttle is, it appears, fitted by nature for its particular kind of weaving, and the like is true of other instruments.Hermogenes
Yes.Socrates
Then, my dear friend, must not the law-giver also know how to embody in the sounds and syllables that name which is fitted by nature for each object? Must he not make and give all his names with his eye fixed upon the absolute or ideal name, if he is to be an authoritative giver of names? And if different lawgivers do not embody it in the same syllables, we must not forget this ideal name on that account; for different smiths do not embody the form in the same iron,
For each kind of shuttle is, it appears, fitted by nature for its particular kind of weaving, and the like is true of other instruments.Hermogenes
Yes.Socrates
Then, my dear friend, must not the law-giver also know how to embody in the sounds and syllables that name which is fitted by nature for each object? Must he not make and give all his names with his eye fixed upon the absolute or ideal name, if he is to be an authoritative giver of names? And if different lawgivers do not embody it in the same syllables, we must not forget this ideal name on that account; for different smiths do not embody the form in the same iron,
